LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pass of Leny
KILMORE.—The John Robert Life-boat was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 22nd March, during a S. wind and a thick fog, and remained during the night by the barque Pass of Leny, of Glasgow, bound from Java for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar,...
Sisters
DROGHKDA.—On the 10th January the No. 2 Life-boat, John Suiter Charley, of this station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Sisters, of Sunderland, which vessel being driven in on the lee-shore of Bettystown strand came in contact...
Breton
PORTMADOC.—At 3 P.M. on the 14th October, during stormy weather, the schooner Breton, of Fowey, was observed to be showing a signal of distress. The Life-boat John Ashbury was immediately manned, and by the time she was afloat the vessel had...
Ceres
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...
Vibelia
CHAPEL, LINCOLNSHIRE.—While a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. to N.E. anda heavy sea was running, on the 8th of April, the schooner Vibelia, of and from Grimstadt for Boston, Lincolnshire, with a cargo of pit-poles and lumber, stranded...
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
The S.S. Ardle
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The Life-boat John Surch was launched at 10 A.M. on the 22nd January, and put on board the s.s. Ardle, of Dundee, some men by whose aid the vessel, which had been stranded on the beach about two months, was got afloat, and...
Humane Society's Medal for a Welsh Life-Boatman
THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its bronze medal and certificate to Robert John Gammon, the mechanic of the life-boat at The Mumbles, for attempting to rescue a "frogman" •who was working under water on repairs to the pier....
Category: Awards
Fishing Cobles (1)
Staithes, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 3rd June five local fishing cobles put out to the fishing ground to haul crab pots. The weather was fine, but there was a strong searunning. The sea increased until there was considerable...
The Earl of Harrowby
JOHN HERBERT DUDLEY RYDER, fifth Earl of Harrowby, died on the 30th of March, 1956, at the age of 91. The Earl of Harrowby had held the office of treasurer of the Institution longer than anyone else in the Institution's history. He was...
Category: Obituaries